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6 play 4 minute drive, down 8 with 7 minutes left

Boarcane said:
The loser talk is believing that there’s a magic flip to be switched on and off. We played a team with an incredibly competent staff and a roster with six consecutive top five recruiting classes. I wasn’t going into it think we’d win. I wanted to see mistake free football and four quarters of fight from our team. The loser mentality is on those that set unrealistic expectations and can’t emotionally balance reality and dreams. You keep buying lottery tickets and I’ll keep crushing it daily. We’ll see who’s plan works best. Great job by the team and staff last night.
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Exactly 💯
 
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Can we not play revisionist history when it hasn’t even been 24 hours?

We outplayed and outgained them in everything outside of horrific special teams. I counted at least 10 plays that, if guys finished, would have either been very long gains or a few of them scoring plays.

We handed them the game shooting ourselves in the foot, bad redzone playcalling, conservative/scared decisions and awful time management late in the game.
And that’s not even getting too deep into TVD and the WRs, in spite of which we still should have won the game.

That’s it. There are some bright spots, such as the offensive line, running game, and MUCH better pass coverage, but can we please not pretend that was some valiant performance? Lol A&M was not a good team last night.

Edit: just a reminder that they lost to App State at home. They looked slightly better, but not by much if we’re keeping it real.
 
McGahee2TheHouse said:
Lol "we won the night"

Loser talk. I remember saying the same thing leaving Gainesville in 2008.
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The fact you just compared last night in College Station to that Shannon-led squad in 2008 is laughable.

There are no moral victories, but Miami is on the right path and this team will get better as the year goes on.

The November version of these Canes (barring everyone is healthy) will look back and known this was a winnable game if they play they way they're playing later in the year.

Didn't work out that way last night.

You act as if Miami didn't just get rolled 62-24 by North Carolina two years ago, 42-17 at Clemson earlier in the year and didn't go 7-5 last year for a reason.

Pretty laughable for our fanbase to expect to waltz into College Station—year five of the Jimbo era—and stroll out with a "W".

Winnable game last night, but Miami came up short and had too many mistakes. Still a night and day difference from that 2008 game that has nothing to do with 2022. Moving on.
 
We haven’t won a road non conference game against a ranked team since 2003. Am I the only one living in reality. 😂 I guess we should go undefeated the rest of the season “if we get better coaching”. We’ll roll clemson twice and crush it in the playoffs 😂 Coaching is the problem 😂
 
Boarcane said:
That’s easily the best coaching performance we’ve had in years. We had a chance to win on the final possession. The D played lights out. The game plan was sound. We had a balanced offense and threw the ball more than I anticipated we would. We dropped a lot of balls and missed two easy field goals. I can’t ask for more with this roster away in front of 100,000 loud fanatics. Hate all you want, but that last dropped pass wasn’t on the staff. If we tie it, they’re remembered for grace under pressure. We won the night. If you don’t believe so, you have zero perspective and missed the last twenty years. The staff did a phenomenal job.
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Unfortunately, & with due respect, no they did not. You call our playcalling in the red zone Phenomenal???....
 
arinand1 said:
Can we not play revisionist history when it hasn’t even been 24 hours?

We outplayed and outgained them in everything outside of horrific special teams. I counted at least 10 plays that, if guys finished, would have either been very long gains or a few of them scoring plays.

We handed them the game shooting ourselves in the foot, bad redzone playcalling, conservative/scared decisions and awful time management late in the game.
And that’s not even getting too deep into TVD and the WRs, in spite of which we still should have won the game.

That’s it. There are some bright spots, such as the offensive line, running game, and MUCH better pass coverage, but can we please not pretend that was some valiant performance? Lol

Edit: just a reminder that they lost to App State at home. They looked slightly better, but not by much if we’re keeping it real.
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What tf does that say about us then??
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
The fact you just compared last night in College Station to that Shannon-led squad in 2008 is laughable.

There are no moral victories, but Miami is on the right path and this team will get better as the year goes on.

The November version of these Canes (barring everyone is healthy) will look back and known this was a winnable game if they play they way they're playing later in the year.

Didn't work out that way last night.

You act as if Miami didn't just get rolled 62-24 by North Carolina two years ago, 42-17 at Clemson earlier in the year and didn't go 7-5 last year for a reason.

Pretty laughable for our fanbase to expect to waltz into College Station—year five of the Jimbo era—and stroll out with a "W".

Winnable game last night, but Miami came up short and had too many mistakes. Still a night and day difference from that 2008 game that has nothing to do with 2022. Moving on.
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Yeah, laughable for us to expect to beat a team who only put up 17 points against us in the actual game.

People like yourself keep citing our expectations prior to actually playing the game as a reason that losing was acceptable. Guess what, when the lights were on, TAMU proved to be extremely mediocre and we couldn't get it done. Who cares what we expected coming into the game when the reality was that TAMU is not a good football team.
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
The fact you just compared last night in College Station to that Shannon-led squad in 2008 is laughable.

There are no moral victories, but Miami is on the right path and this team will get better as the year goes on.

The November version of these Canes (barring everyone is healthy) will look back and known this was a winnable game if they play they way they're playing later in the year.

Didn't work out that way last night.

You act as if Miami didn't just get rolled 62-24 by North Carolina two years ago, 42-17 at Clemson earlier in the year and didn't go 7-5 last year for a reason.

Pretty laughable for our fanbase to expect to waltz into College Station—year five of the Jimbo era—and stroll out with a "W".

Winnable game last night, but Miami came up short and had too many mistakes. Still a night and day difference from that 2008 game that has nothing to do with 2022. Moving on.
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Shannon's 09 team would've Won last night
 
SWFLHurricane said:
What tf does that say about us then??
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That we were the more physical team all night, mostly outplayed them up until we got into the redzone.

Stupid mistakes, a lot of stuff that SHOULD be fixable, but that’s just something that remains to be seen. I’m certainly not happy with the performance.
 
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arinand1 said:
That we were the more physical team all night, mostly outplayed them up until we got into the redzone.

Stupid mistakes, a lot of stuff that SHOULD be fixable, but that’s just something that remains to be seen. I’m certainly not happy with the performance.
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I'm not sold on Gattis whatsoever. No creativity at all. Terrible playcalling to not have scored one TD last night.
 
section9 said:
Evidence that Mario and Gattis have less faith in our WR room than they are publicly prepared to admit.
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Facts. The play calling read to me as absolutely 0 faith or confidence and let's settle for field goals and hope we get lucky.
 
DiegoCane said:
Even more reason to play fast bc it’s unlikely we were getting the first down.

The last holding occurred with 5:10 left. Ran 2 plays and a punt in 2:11.

Criminal
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And yet we still got ball back with a minute four. The sense of urgency or kids confused on the last drive was a better example.
 
Two screwups on special teams contributed to 7 of their points and 3 we could've had. On top of that, just one surehanded receiver would've made a difference.

Everyone had this chalked up as a loss all offseason, but after the App St thing, they were so sure we'd win when nothing had really changed.
 
Boarcane said:
That’s easily the best coaching performance we’ve had in years. We had a chance to win on the final possession. The D played lights out. The game plan was sound. We had a balanced offense and threw the ball more than I anticipated we would. We dropped a lot of balls and missed two easy field goals. I can’t ask for more with this roster away in front of 100,000 loud fanatics. Hate all you want, but that last dropped pass wasn’t on the staff. If we tie it, they’re remembered for grace under pressure. We won the night. If you don’t believe so, you have zero perspective and missed the last twenty years. The staff did a phenomenal job.
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We can meet in the middle. The game plan was very good. If was effective. BUT, the execution and play calling was the downfall of the game plan. D played great. Drops and special teams blunders AND the play calling killed us
 
SWFLHurricane said:
I'm not sold on Gattis whatsoever. No creativity at all. Terrible playcalling to not have scored one TD last night.
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I think he mostly called a great game up from the 0- 20/30ish yard line. I have no explanation for whatever the **** he was doing in that redzone territory, was just awful.

Also some questionable play calling toward the end, but you can’t exactly hold it against him that TVD couldn’t complete a pass past 15 yards, and when he was anywhere close it wasn’t caught half the time 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
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Boarcane said:
That’s easily the best coaching performance we’ve had in years. We had a chance to win on the final possession. The D played lights out. The game plan was sound. We had a balanced offense and threw the ball more than I anticipated we would. We dropped a lot of balls and missed two easy field goals. I can’t ask for more with this roster away in front of 100,000 loud fanatics. Hate all you want, but that last dropped pass wasn’t on the staff. If we tie it, they’re remembered for grace under pressure. We won the night. If you don’t believe so, you have zero perspective and missed the last twenty years. The staff did a phenomenal job.
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Man, have expectations fallen to an all time low if we are taking silver linings out of that coaching performance. I give credit to the defense for being able to stop a game manager QB but seriously we are kidding ourselves if we assume the rest of our opponents are going to be that vanilla.

Our offensive performance was atrocious. We ran the ball okay, but none of our RB's can take it to the house like Duke, Walton, Dee Jay or even Homer could. Our WR's are the worst I've ever seen in this program. Van Dyke was spoiled last year with Rambo and even Harley being almost Canton-esque compared to this crew. But our OC in the red zone had nothing designed to get us in the end zone and twice didn't even try.

Yeah our special teams were bad (opening kickoff #4 whiffed costing us 30 yards of field position, Stevenson muff, Porter not being tough enough to get that fumble, a brutal penalty the play before not being lined up right...). This was not a well coached team.

Giving them points and props for not quitting is a really low bar.
 
SWFLHurricane said:
Unfortunately, & with due respect, no they did not. You call our playcalling in the red zone Phenomenal???....
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The play calling on both sides of the ball was excellent. Offensively we struggled to catch the ball. We’re missing our best back and wide receiver. Our quarterback struggled in the first half. They did a great job with what they had to work with. We had a chance to win the game, but the kids didn’t execute. I’m very pleased with our overall performance, taking the last nineteen years of football into consideration. Was this a great Miami performance? Absolutely not. Was this a game to lament? Absolutely not. I can’t be upset. We’re getting better as a program and it’s easy to see. This past offseason was a blessing. Coaching isn’t only about what we see on the field. Those kids were mentally prepared to fight all night. That in itself is something new for us. I remember people thinking Jimmy and Butch both sucked and needed to be fired. This is Groundhog Day for me. I’m going to enjoy all of it, AGAIN.
Go Canes 🙌
 
SWFLHurricane said:
I'm not sold on Gattis whatsoever. No creativity at all. Terrible playcalling to not have scored one TD last night.
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I'll reserve real criticism until we get into conference play and see if we make adjustments. X would have caught 10 balls last night and he is physical enough to make YAC. Huge blow if he is out at least 6 weeks.
 
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